We’ve got a busy week ahead of sharing science to the wider world. Check out what’s on tap! Science on Ice at the Frozen Assets Festival – Saturday, February 3rd (11am to 3pm) Ever wonder what a limnologist does in the winter when their field site gets, well, hard? Come on out to the Clean …
Each winter people ask us what, exactly, is everything doing down under that ice? As those ice fishing shanties dotting the frozen surface of our lakes attest, fish are still active. So how, exactly, do fish get through winter? Brandon Peoples, one of our friends over at The Fisheries Blog recently answered the question of …
At the end of last year, the Center for Limnology received a very special Christmas gift all the way from Corvallis, Oregon. To be more precise, our recently retired director, Steve Carpenter, got a package in the mail. Inside was a small brown case about four inches high and the width and length of a …
(This article was originally published January 22, 2018 and has been updated with photos from January 2022) by Adam Hinterthuer – Two weeks ago, I walked down the hill from my house to do something I’d never done before. On the shoreline of Lake Monona, in the time it took my wife to get herself …
While April showers might bring May flowers, they also contribute to toxic bacteria blooms, dead zones and declining water quality in U.S. lakes, reservoirs and coastal waters, says a new study published online by the journal Limnology and Oceanography. In the Midwest, the problem is largely caused by phosphorus, a key element in fertilizers that …
by Jake Walsh There is a fortunate silver-lining to those of us prone to making mistakes – they can be a powerful teaching tool. At a minimum, our mistakes teach us things we shouldn’t be doing. In the best cases, they help us better understand ourselves and how we work. Scientists are no strangers to …
Welcome back to our blog! We’ve got big plans in store for 2018, but first wanted to touch base on something that happened way back in 2017 – December 27th, to be exact. If you were in the Madison area and ventured out along the shoreline of our beautiful lakes, you would’ve seen that Lake …
Happy Holidays, blog readers! We hope you had a fun, productive and meaningful 2017. As we head off into our holiday break, here is a gift from us, a look at 12 blog posts from this year that were big hits with our readers. In 2018 we’re hoping to revamp the blog and get more …
It’s beginning to look a lot like the end of the year, and that means we’re looking back at some of the stories that shaped the Center for Limnology in 2017. It was a year of many changes, retirements, exciting research and well-deserved awards. You can read (and download) the entire newsletter in a PDF …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Emily Stanley, professor at the Center for Limnology and department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the 2018 recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. The G. Evelyn Hutchinson award honors a limnologist or oceanographer who has made …